It's 5:20 Somewhere - From The Streets to Success | Belly Gang Kushington π
This week on Itβs 520 Somewhere, the girls sit down with celebrity rapper Belly Gang Kushington for a conversation that goes way beyond music π₯
Belly opens up about how his rap career first started, the challenges he faced along the way, and the life-changing decision to leave the streets behind and pursue a different path.
The conversation also gets personal as he talks about the qualities he looks for in a woman, relationships, and even the foods that move him and keep him coming back for more π
From real-life lessons to laughs and unfiltered stories, this episode gives fans a deeper look into the man behind the music.
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Welcome back to It is five twenty somewhere, y'all. We are we are absolutely we are overly loaded. We're on our third guest this week, bartender. We're the licoric. So let's let me introduce y'all know one, I'm here with, I'm here with the beautiful trap Are you what, Mama? I'm you are? We are. We live like a tick bitch. We about to get back tonight. Okay, y'all. Disclaimer, y'all know I'm the I'm the sober one of the crew. So we just left the club and we just came here and we just decided to catch a vibe. You know how I go. We winging it. We were winging it. But guess what, y'all. Last, but not least last, but SI, y'all want me. To do my introy. Okay, let's not have an. Accolades accolades, y'all. Today we got a Lansa in the building straight out of Adamsville, right belly gang cushionson from viral highway freestyles to bring it back the gritty early two thousands trap Field. He's been making noise with records like friends do. Because we're gonna bounce our ass to it and our mama gonna watch them, motherfucking His debut project, The Street is Yours, But beyond the music, his story is real fatherhood, survival, identity, and turning everything he's been through into motions. So y'all already know what time it is. We got our drinks poured up, We got belly cushion tea up on the couch. Baby, how you feeling? I wrote that, I wrote that was waiting on you. We were hoping that we got you on the couch, so already I had wrote that a few days ago, and look how it worked out. I manifested that ship. We're so happy to be here with you. And the fact that you asked for a Barbie drink. Is yeah, that's cheers, and we take your dream. Yeah yeah, yeah, get into it. What's in here? It is BlackBerry lemonade, tequila and an orange liqueurse this ship fire he did. He was like, so you're gonna make that drinking and I had to whip it up drunk, so I hope it's still tasting right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, y'all know, we tequila girls. We let we fresh out of the club and we're about to buy so how the club. There were streaming, We stream were streaming. Is we live? Yeah, we can, we we might, I mean milk might be too well, he ain't about the stream ship. Oh ship we live. He got that shirt on. He knows what's going on. So we are the real mechant. That's what. We got you. We got you on the problem. We know it's yeah, look come Onday, but. You're nobody's merchants hotter than yours. I want to I don't. Know, I've seen. I'm like, ooh, family, this is. Your size right here. You know it's not it. This is not the real big three. That's not that's not the real big three. That's Club twenty Day, Happy club for twenty day. By the way, oh y'all said was super late. Fuck with you. You got to. We feel like they be sleeping on us a little bit. So let her know. I definitely slip on that, son like, I'm. Definitely gonna but you we're now all right for sure. I might move up to. We overally loaded the fuck less so what like? So it's Club five twenty day. We were doing our athleticism ship. We didn't do ship, but everybody else was like they had tuk Award. They did beer pong, they did like water slides and stuff like that. Are you tapped into like the sports side of things, like what's your favorite sports team? Sports? Yeah, you would have competed. Where was. I missed my flight last night? So like I was on the flight. Was supposed to be on. I was just. He was gonna be on production. Drug across. Literally got drugged. It's a video of him like going out of the camera. They pulled can't outside like that? Keep pull it up please cause. Don't do Michael Angelo Like. Yeah, whatever. So Adamsville, Atlanta, I never I never heard of that. Where is that at? What side of town? It's on the west side. West side, what's the best side. I don't stay somewhere what man douglars Field or Camelton, Kennyville right now? Staying bucket flat Land? Like half my family from Flatland, half half my family from Adamville. So like went back and forth between the two. I have a because we're from Georgia as well. We were born there, so I don't even know if yes, we was born in Georgia, but. Do you know about it's. Very much on the border right next to Florida's right right by Jackson. So anyway, Kimden County is where we're from. You know about it, like in between Savannah and. Like Saint Mary's Kingsland folks then near like I. Don't really know about it, but like I don't have to drive through the couple of times. Type ship so you're aware. I'm at one person. He was a truck driver and he was from where we were from. I'm like, okay, cool, that never happened to me very much. Country. It's country, so a country. Because everybody assumes if you're from Georgia, they assume you're automatically from Atlanta. Like, no, I'm a real country girl. I really was south swimming in the lake. Fishing doing all it. You fish snakes, bro. I used to cut the grass and see snakes in the grass. Y'all. Yes, we don't. Let's boys in our family. And I'm the oldest, so I am miss Nigga. I am dry. Last week I took the dryer apart and fixed it because it was like fucking up. I did that, like. Fix and it if y'all dr sucking up. I can feel some motor you grill. Oh overly telling you fish you know how to use the smokers. I've never been fishing in my life. Really want to go fishing, Like we're gonna fish. I never touched the worm a fishing pole and fishing nothing. We are we will help you. I just started doing that with my son. He's three, and he's been fishing like you knows how to fish. And I'm a gross girl. I don't like none of that, Like I think it's so gross, but you know is needy. I just never been fishing the worm. We're gonna come to the country and come fish with you. We want to come to Atlanta with you. It's like a little fish. Atta. It's like swa means like like near the coast and you can like go fishing and they'll. Cut your fish out for you and you can take on in Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, Georgia. But like it ain't so if we if we come to your city, where are you taking us? Fishy said, first, probably like to the hood. We get to eat the majora city, okay, and then like after hours, you know what I'm saying. You know, the clubs be open twenty four hours at like on the under the radar type ship. So I ain't gonna say what club like, yeah. Yeah, what I'm saying, I ain't gonna lie I would. I lived in Atlanta during COVID. Oh sorry, y'all. I lived in Atlanta during COVID, and it was just the funniest time of my life because in the clubs, nobody had on makeup, like and nobody cared about ship. We was just all outside having a living random time. Like like right now, we live in life right now. I mean, but we care a little like a then nobody cared about ship. We just cared about being outside and being alive. It was fun. But if like so I'm a foodie, so if we come to Adamsville or were we eating. At inside Adamville, probably like it's called on it's a wing spot, math you gonna take it. It's in the gas station. So we're gonna get our We're gonna get our white tea from you as boats up like cocaine, and then we're gonna go get We're gonna get chicken from the gas station. Like the bitch food in the Atlanta probably right now we think of bigfood and at Lanta right now night, and I mean, I'm gonna saying the bed food and that learning right now, probably lacky pounder. It sounds like you got you got people cooking for you, so you ain't gonna worry about eating out. I'm not gonna lie that that been giving me like a little spoil Like. Yes, you should should be. But how do a girl push up. If you got a cheff, you got a chef the pin you know what? Crazy? I can have a shelf making lay me and all that, but like girl might push over me. Different. Okay, look how you look when you. About We ain't making him no tomahawk and make him afraid of chick. He's gonna be happy. So do you care if a girl can cook? What matters? What does I would like that? I don't know. It's not like it depends how strong she is. Other ship. If you can't do and you can't cook, now be looking at the fact that you can't cook, like looks not enough? Looks not enough? Mm hmmm. Five gotta be there. I ain't gonna lie vis priority priority, What about body? Yeah? Give us the list, so can we get come on, like, give us a order. Character first, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say, I'm saying what I'm trying to do, like if I'm trying to forever, Yeah, if I'm staying forever. First, chemistry, okay, first. You can be a little ugly, longeres she. Vibe, all three of these must have. You got to have a vibe. You got to be pretty. Yeah, you got to have some being about yourself. Now, being about yourself ain't really just necessarily saying you're successful. As long as you like got some type of stride or like some type of wake up and just I don't know, just you know that feeling somebody like you chose. I definitely, definitely you've got. To be chosen like you. You gotta have ambition, Like there's so many different levels of ambition. Like I just left the ring so well like a homeless and it was still there, No, it was gone, but like I seen a homeless man on the street gave me the ring, like and I was just kind of like ambit right there, like yeah he knew, he knew, Like, yeah he knew. He stayed and that never happens. That's what I'm saying though, that's some chosen. Ship ship Like I go plonny ring and fai like you never got that back. If you was a regular and that's solid. That's though you ring what you was doing watching my hand and said it off. Oh I see, I watched my hand. I took it out, watched my hand. I'm glad you watched yours because people don't be watching. It's not in the car from the last you some living fellow living people like wait, the homeless man. He was here, She was like thirty minutes ago. Okay, you five twenty usually hates the homeless people here, but we. Love y'all, man help us. We love the home they gave them. However, I do have a bona pick with you. I don't know I'm here. I've seen this before. You man, what's going on you twin? However, dream, that's what I'm He was on the couch with the real Big Three. Yeah, we was in his dream, y'all tell you right now? Dream, Come on, cook. I was gonna say, damn, you made me lose mynt bona pick with you because your so you're still in love with your baby mama, and so what's what's. Wrong with that? He said? He loved his. Love him let him. He said, I love you, mama. I forgot what she like do you love your baby mama. Yeahment, like I really was trying to teach the new girl. They ain't got any do to amen pants bring this whole situation. Okay, listening to that, like I love a nigga who control the whole situation. Yeah, everything that you good? Baby girl, baby mama goodby right now? Like she will be cool. I love that. Let's do what we want to have to make her funk with you. We want to tell her how you know now we just wanted to be cool with you. Just want to be up right now? What time is it in Adamsville the same time. Suburb? I that's. That's a good work was just about to go. She probably sleep. We're gonna leave her video onto our spots twenty somewhere. However, we love your girl. We love I know that's right though. That's cool. She's taking care of She good. Yeah, so don't sorry about that baby. Some' doing it, y'all doing it together? Are you your next kid? Oh? Oh okay, I'm just asking to you, said, let's answer. She's calling. It's somebody. How are you doing me? Indianapolis? Indodannapolis drunk. Click anyway call you later? Were on account y'all, he's too answer, she said. I thought that was. Immediately. He's too thorough though, like he like, no, thrill. Listen. This is the thing. I don't see you in your interviews and they don't ask you some questions and your responses they always be like realized responses. I'm like, I with that. So that is the thing you like that? No, I do. But however, this is the thing though because we're okay. So me and Troup, we're twins and we're mixed with black and someone. Right, so when we was. Growing up, obviously were We've always been like in our whole life, so people be trying to like com for us a little bit. You don't have people like say you look like this or you look like that. Also, I seen when you was on Poor Mince and it was like, uh so, how do you feel when they be saying you look white or you whie or you were He. Was like I look white? Like what can you do? And I'm like, oh my god, I love that approach because it's like we do like we sprinkle with a little some. But we were always super defensive because our daddy is very pro black. So it's just it was hard for us to juggle that, you know what I'm saying. I would like that at first, Like my brothers in sushi, you gotta think they all black, they full black, so they like want to take out for me and to like kind of made me feel like, oh, I got to take off for myself, like I got, oh, I just got like like it's being real, like who the fu just waking up some day worrying about me and what I really am, Like they just look at me like it's a white male, Like yeah, I don't really don't really like who are you? I'm a rapper though, Like it do be kind of like annoying because it's a lot going on. Yeah, Like sometimes it'll be like damn on, bigger hell, like in Atlanta or like in the South, like I be real big, so everybody too, yeah, or like even in the mid but like if I go to like Seattle, or like if a page post me in Seattle, it'll be like who I am? The hell he did? Like I'm gonna be honest with you though. The very first time I seen you, I said, why is this white boy saying. Nigga like this? I ain't gonna lie like every time, like in personal like even when it comes to like rappers, peers, fans, like I never ran to none of that. Yeah, I swear, I swear to God. Is he lying though? I know? Like I moved like they already know, like in personal, like they just smelled this ship like oh yeah, that ain't. And this is the thing, this is the thing, Like you could see a visu or you could see a nigga in a picture, you could see all that or whatever. However, once you feel the energy, you feel the vibe, you feel it or it hit different. I don't right into a couple like people that I could tell, like they will hang on the internet, they fan out in personally. Right, Yeah, it'd be like that. But they just be doing that really truthfully, more than anything to attract a response. That's how I feeling. Yeah, I ain't never responded nobody. Oh see we do. We be in the comments like we don't anymore ship last week? Who you say? Look ugly? Who are you talking about? We go in on the comments. It'd be hard. They be hard, but you can't, like you know what I'm saying. You gotta think like I ain't doing now with their life. Yeah, And that's the thing. It's like, y'all kind of miserable, Like you're chronically on the internet. This all you have to judge somebody off a clip, and you gotta think we choosing to put for somebody to have an opinion. You're right, so we can't be mad at their opinion, even if it's someone don't want to hear like making me rich, Like, yeah, that's true. How did you? How did you get into rapping? Though? On my partner who I was telling y'all who died, He made me wrap. I'll come to the studio. They like having girls and like he's just seen it. Wait, I got a question. Was you already having you was already had everything now at this time? Okay, so he's talent. When I first started trying to rap, he had the money. Okay, he was wanted really just like one of the niggas who had money but couldn't wrap but wanted to poet. You were like, he was just at this point, y'all know them niggas who got money who want to rap, but you got you got it. He was on ship like, bro, you need to wrap. But some of them niggas they be like, oh, you should do it. You should do it, you should wrap. And then they get in the booth and they' not hitting on nothing. It not like so so he made me start rapping. It wasn't really talking about now I was a kid like seventeen eighteen. Oh wow. And then like I just didn't care about rapped no more. And then I start having paper in the street for real, Like I built a street career in the wrong lane so the vision matched the energy. Yeah, but like I did it in the wrong lane. I literally like started the family, built the home like property just started business is like oh nice, really like winn in the wrong direction the wrong way, like you know what I'm saying. And eventually I got locked up. I beat two cases, came home, turned up some more. Then when I called two more cases, and when I met my members of Monday, and I was like, I gotta try something with it. I probably had to do something different two three, and I was like I just want to wrap, Like let me see if this will work. I put the money behind wrap went crazy like we are today. I love that. But that's the thing too though, like some some people they might have the look, they might have the everything that was going on, they have the aura, but they don't have the talent. So it's like for you, it was it was one equal to. Yeah, like I'm gonna leave us alone and I'm the focus. But you got the voice and you got the flow, you got the aura, and. You write it right. Of course I do work with writers like as far as like ideals and ship but like, oh my shop, right, who's. Like, who is somebody you would really like to have as a feature? Probably? You see what the like? This is what I was saying. I'm like, every that would be a real bigger response. Come on, how does your brain works? Okay, I'm sorry, I'm just saying. I know you got some person laying around for sure, and you're gonna kill that I wanted. I'm buying it. Well, I personally want. But like if I had to make a song right now, probably like I'll go get training them. Yeah, come back, you know, okay, keep talking, keeps talking. That would go crazy. I'll probably go get I be thinking crazy and ask like Michelle Obama come talking. About she's gonna be like you can be anything that you want to be. Something like that. That was creative. What you want to say? Keep going black girl, dream big like. Your friend. You know, lady, I got a question though, because I do feel like you give, like you like super duper control the traffic in your relationships. So like if you go ahead, so if you run into a little toxic little something. How do you deal with that? What you mean by control the traffic? Like you just give? Like you said, I make my baby mama, you run. That's my ship, that that's my baggage. I'm gonna control my baggage. I don't bring a baggage to the relationship like I need to handle that. If you bring a. Baggage, won't like as you the fuck you should, because some niggas don't be having control. Of Like but I'm saying like a girl, they don't just mean like I want her to live her life like she would have regularly lived it without me. Like, if you have baggage, it won't touch your girl. But if a girl being toxic, do you like talking and she not emotionally intelligent enough to know she's being toxic, I'm not even talking about but he's grown thirty five, thirty five. But question is, do you not like a little bit of toxicity? Yeah, but I ain't gonna lie somebody was just dealing with probably recently, I wasn't even dealing with them, like I just really met them, called a couple of times. Oh that if you like, Oh she's so played that she. Let me do or do you just be like let me do what now? I don't let me do it. I don't do let him do what? Man, you don't do that. I don't do nothing. You love that. Exclusive man, exclud you hear that ship? It was so crazy. I don't even like to talk to a girl. If she just let me talk to I want to take you a day and when you over, Oh. I like that, he said. I know that's right. Don't be easy peasy bitch. So as far as like listening to music, do you listen to like female rap? Well you like because like spind that ship is going crazy right now? Favorite spin ship spin it wear all my skim and as. Money fat, Come on, ship, I thought you. I thought you drugs. That's what I got. I got to trafficking charges, all charges. Oh my god, he's fifty fifty around. Spend that money fast. I'm talking about this cash. So you had the ship that you went through, but once you made it in rap, Like, how did that feel for like you and your family. What you know, how did you celebrate that it's different? And when did it hit? When? Like when did it really hit? Mm hmmm, I ain't really hit for real, like to be honest, like. This ship don't hit different amate for a BT award. That kind of feel like this is a B E T Award like a BT Awards. Yeah, that feel good, but about some Jill got my teeth done. I just like, but you don't have nobody in your run out. It's just like you were really like telling you're like you. You got to do Like that's all day, every day. Every girl like me, like step up from normal life, like you made it. So when you see it, like when you see crowds, big ass crowds with all the lights and ship and they all saying your lyrics word for words, He's like. Like I owe that to them. Yeah, called myself a rapper, better turn out. Look, but the first time you've seen that was you like, damn, this ship really real. First time I've seen it ain't like drunk and I've seen it back day on camera like dzyal, what city was it? I don't really know, Like I could do a show yeah, we you know, selling like a thousand techs. Wasn't taking no show. Like, you know what's so crazy about that? Your city support you in your city was the first city that you had an epiphany at. And I feel like sometimes it's harder to win over your city. So that's how you know you've really live for real in your city focused Initially. I don't know, I feel like you really fun with us. I've been watching like your other interviews and you be you so cool. I'm so extremely cool when you've been like you've been. Giving us interviews. Yeah, like you've been giving us life right now. It's because I really had a lot. We would have had an interview anyway. I just didn't know y'all did a podcast on like we were just gonna have a conversation anyway. He said, the vibes are a priority. We the vibes. We the real big three. You the fucking vibe A real big were a real big Three's yours at home? Where? But yeah, So what's your favorite your favorite sports team? I gotta. Hawks Falcons. Are you into like football any other? Like Kik, He's realized Lebron Lebron j t okay one time All Star. We're gonna you to like that. Yeah, you do like sports. I really understand that. I don't got times, just don't be able to watch. You gotta be too tapped in. It's very brand specific. Yeah, it's a lot. I've been trying to figure out sports and I'm just like, I don't even know. Where to I like sports. Yeah, I like. You be going to the games. I'm sure I would love to see you. Of course. You're just there, but you there to. Be a star. I got a question, did they ever in the hood they ever called you? That was my name? That was one that is living. See we super dup yellow. So that was our daddy name because he got it from his daddy Yellow. However, so you lived that. Brown skinned babe on the couch. Made away from the baby. Now I went to the Florida and they was calling me Red. I'm like nigga, I'm brownish type ship. However, I just knew they I knew they. Name before before like anything. Did you come up with your rock name? Yeah? Where did that come from? Where did it come to? Like first, I was like doing the wrong thing. They were like that. I cushed by the time, Oh that name, But then I started getting fat, call me billy gang put them together. That was that's fire you was on some whole rock and roll ship. They be having them fire ass names and combinations like red hot Hilly Peppers. You know, I'm gonna lie. I don't. Because you don't like it. What would it be? It's very. If you were redo it, if you were redoing. I tried to make up my own name and feeling. What did you come up with? Remember I couldn't even come up with okay, calling me b. G k Okay, y'all, if is very y'all looking at him and knowing his aura and all. That, what would we name his rap name? Give my name's as he got money. He's a good dad. What you were ready? Were ready? Give my name? Well? Sad it. We were asking everybody today what's their favorite hairstyle on the woman? It's yours. I ain't lay man, I'm trying to pick between these three. Okay, okay, good in said waiting wavy. Waiting, wavy with the loose curl. Yeah yeah, it's right, just gorgeous. Come on, give it. It's giving body YadA. YadA with braid right now. If I had to pick fits hairstyle on the girl. No, I'm just kidding. As long as you got hair head, whatever you got. However, what's what's from your cap hair listen? Okay, okay, okay, he got a hairline listen at our age? You thirty five too, so you know, everybody, we're not thirty fresh thirty. I'm just saying you're himty gang, thirty gang. Everybody don't got a caroline at this at that age, I'm sure you know a couple of your homeboys gotta be too low. Okay, cool? Wait, hold on, we're going to the club still, right, Yeah, we. Got to get to the club. I want to end it off. What's a black character trait that missed? Y'all? I don't know to play spades? I wanted to play to a little bit, a little bit. What am I? I just know that. In the house tonight, play play on gold fish? What you're talking about? Beach? Please? Okay? The reverse? Bitch? Hold on, hold on, go ahead. What's the character of. Black character that means mental? Because I enjoyed that question just for him to okay, and he did it. What's yours? I don't know? You go first? No, bitch, you. I I don't know you just. Faces Malcolm X in case I didn't know all the work. Trace hit me, bitch. I want to except she looks a little yellow red Marcus Garvey broke Rosa Parks. But however, I will say, y'all know what. Y'all know what character miss me? We know what miss y'all. I don't know about y'all, but I cannot do that to me A two step. I can't do that. You can't catch a beat like one time, God like I can't. I cannot make that ship work. Y'all know what I can do though, Yeah, yeah, he don't know it. We want to thank you so much about to Tropici you already yeah, no, wait, thank you so m let him let him spind it go, hold on, hold on, we're gonna stop it, stop it real quick. We want to thank you so much for coming on here with us. We're about to go to the club. We're about to turn up and have time. So we really thank you so much for rocking with us. Y'all know what didn't hit me? What's that? A fat ass? That's why I gotta be Yeah, I gotta Know it.